Teesri Dhun – The Third Tone is a documentary theater play from Pakistan, directed by Dr. Clarie Pamment with researcher and art scholar Iram Sana. The play is a dramatization of transgender people's lives and struggle to survive as a third gender category in a polarized society where the male/female dichotomy is the guiding principle. In the play we are introduced to [...]
Melahuset invites you to the Mela Fokus event series, where we highlight different cultural expressions and artists with roots in different countries. As Somalis make up the largest African community in Norway, this year's focus is Somalia. Concert: Dur Dur Band Int'l Dur-Dur Band Int'l is a revival band in exile in London that has resumed the legacy of Dur-Dur Band, a [...].
Congas and Cuban rhythms Luisón Medina Capote is a Cuban percussionist, singer and composer, who has also made a name for himself as a footballer and who has played several matches for the Cuban national team. Fortunately, he chose to bet on the music, and is ready to fill Melahuset with Cuban rhythms. Capote has lived in Norway in [...]
Release the music video SAMEBLOD + Concert Heimen is a trio fronted by songwriter, vocalist and drummer Kari Heimen. Last autumn, they released the album "Historier - Vi hentes hjem", which is based on Kari Heimen's own family history and depicts the consequences of the Norwegianization policy for an ordinary family in Finnmark. She has also received [...]
Gulla is a promising and outspoken rapper who creates songs with substance and where she portrays issues her generation has to deal with. Her interest in music started as a child, and it was Karpe who became her great inspiration and introduction to the Norwegian rap scene. After high school, she started writing sketches for her own songs, she learned [...]
Busi Ncube comes from a musical family in Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, and started as a singer in the church choir where she learned African gospel, which has been an important source of inspiration along with traditional music from Zimbabwe, South African popular music, jazz, rock and funk. Miriam Makeba, Dorothy Masuka, Dolly Rathebe, Ella Fitzgerald and Bono are some [...]
Dance and conversation Diesel (Daniel Elahi) is an openly queer man with roots from Iran, born and raised in Sweden. Diesel represents the Ballroom scene competing in categories: Sex Siren and Old Fashioned. He has been dancing since 2006, Diesel is classically trained as well as dancing Hiphop and House. Diesel delved into street styles by studying [...]
Since 2017 has Melahuset marked International Women's Day by focusing on women's rights, inclusion, oppression and intersectionality in a nuanced perspective. This year you can experience appeals/speeches from the Minister of Culture and Equality Anette Trettebergstuen and the head of the MiRA centre, Fakhra Salimi. MC Cey, Stella Mwangi and Johanna Alem talk with Mona B. Riise about women [...]
